Elias Marat, TMU
Waking Times
The remains were discovered amid an ongoing investigation for clues as to the disappearance of 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi over three decades ago. The girl was the daughter of a high-ranking Vatican employee who lived within the walls of the holy city. She disappeared while traveling home from a music lesson in Rome.
Forensic workers are now unearthing the bones from the burial chambers before subjecting them to DNA testing in a bid to establish their identities, a process that Vatican officials say could take an indeterminate amount of time to analyze.
Read more & video: ABC News: “Thousands of buried bones spark a new mystery at the Vatican” (1:50) via Thousands of Bones From Dozens of Humans Discovered at Vatican in Search for Missing Teen — Waking Times